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26/1/2014

Want a Free copy of "The Grafters Handbook"?

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R.J Garners "The Grafters Handbook" has long considered the bible for professional horticulturists and hobbyists alike, and offers a comprehensive grafting course, accompanied by line drawings and photographs that provide a vivid visual reference. Topics include using rootstocks from seed and cuttings, identifying viruses, and grafting established trees.

It's an awesome book and with grafting season approaching we thought this would be a great way to celebrate moving to the farm.  If you want a copy just post a comment of how it would benefit you and we'll pick out a lucky winner at the end oof the week and zip you a copy....

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Renee green
25/1/2014 08:31:46 pm

I would love a book to help me teach my grandchildren.

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Joshua
25/1/2014 09:11:03 pm

It would really be a great assistance. I am going to be helping a friend graft some trees for his family property that has been neglected. We are planning on grafting native fruiting trees.

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Salad John
25/1/2014 09:14:46 pm

I'd love to know more about cleft grafting..
Wonder if that's covered?

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Janet Vos
25/1/2014 09:21:31 pm

I would love to know more about grafting. I want to create a small orchard (for our bees) with species hardy to zone 2 or 3 and want to find out how the trees can survive with proper grafting. Thank you.

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Josh chance
25/1/2014 10:21:29 pm

This will be of great benefit to me as I learn about perennial systems during my farm internship this summer. Thank you for doing such awesome giveaways!

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Jan the gardener link
25/1/2014 11:15:30 pm

I wish I had a copy of this book - I was teaching basic grafting to a group last week, but I'm sure I have a lot more to learn yet myself :)

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Jools
25/1/2014 11:21:55 pm

I've recently started teaching City & Guilds Horticulture courses and this book would be invaluable! Also for improving my own knowledge of course :-)

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yannis batis
26/1/2014 12:08:23 am

I am about to attempt grafting some wild pear trees on Andros - I feel it would be very helpful - greetings from Greece!

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Carol
26/1/2014 12:44:45 am

Would love a copy! My husband and I are just starting a new food forest to sustain us in our coming retirement. I have been unable to locate a grafting course close by so we are likely to be self-taught.

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Kevin Mascarenhas
26/1/2014 01:03:24 am

Would love to receive a copy of this book, Richard. I've been identifying fruit trees in my mum's local area including her park looking for likely candidates for some guerrilla grafting.

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Mari Keating link
26/1/2014 01:14:42 am

We are doing fruit tree guild workshops this spring, comparing productive small (suburban size) orchard trees that are productive and not, discussion will include pruning and grafting and would love to be better informed. This book will be very useful. Thanks!

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Rob
26/1/2014 01:46:58 am

What a fine addition to my community garden library

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LeeAnn Maul
26/1/2014 03:46:55 am

Even if I don't win a copy, I'd still like a copy. We have the oldest Chestnut tree in lower Mid Michigan, along w/some other fruit, etc, trees that desperately need graphing.. I run an community organization that is a living example of community homesteading, as well as additional knowledge. This would be an extreme asset. Please consider. Thank you so very much. Please contact me via email (gmail) where I can get a copy, if I am not chosen. Thank you, again.

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Annevi Sjöberg link
26/1/2014 04:06:44 am

It would be great to have a copy of this book in the public permaculture library we have started in Stjärnsund!

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Anders link
26/1/2014 04:17:03 am

We are just about to special order a whole lot of "grafting twigs" to preserve old hardy norwegian local varieties form the norwegian center of gene resources. We are grafting these twigs on some 50 trees we planted from local appleseed two years ago. We are in definite need of some grafting know-how and would love a copy of the grafters handbook! You'll be the first invited over for apple cider!

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Tracy link
26/1/2014 04:45:33 am

We have guerilla gardeners here in San Francisco who go around grafting fruit trees on the sidewalks so they'll produce fruit for everyone. The city is looking the other way I've heard. I love that!

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Jenny
26/1/2014 05:33:30 am

I would love to know more about grafting. And this book would be of great value in this connection.

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Donna mahEr
26/1/2014 06:04:46 am

It would be great addition to my library that I share with my gardening buddies

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Ã…se
26/1/2014 07:47:37 am

I would love to be able to help out My friends with their gardens. Please send me a copy. Love for the trees on planet earth.

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ilujuli link
26/1/2014 08:36:59 am

We need this book for our work in the agroforestry nursery and all ecological regeneration projects that we are developing in the Ecuadorian Andes. Thank u ! We love your work in the coldest climates!

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daniel link
26/1/2014 08:45:58 am

We need this book for learn how to in the agroforestry nursery. Thks

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Calder
26/1/2014 10:39:07 am

A handy book to begin my study in orchard propagation. May I receive this book please?

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Karen
26/1/2014 11:32:05 am

Oh, MY!!! I did not even know this book existed!!! I help elderly people who love to garden but have difficulty doing so, and a few of them have mentioned that they grafted in the past when they were younger, and I know that they would just be delighted to know that I found some information on my own of what they did when they were younger! Oh, I hope you pick me; it will be SOOO much fun to surprise them with!!! Thank you very much for the opportunity!

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Louise Bruns link
26/1/2014 12:26:23 pm

I have a handful of apple tree clippings in the fridge, just waiting for spring to graft onto some old apple trees. I need this book, Richard!

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Nathan Sidney
26/1/2014 04:21:42 pm

I am at the beginning of a career in horticulture, learning the ins and outs of pruning, propagation, soils, nutrition etc. Grafting would be a handy skill to have, expert grafters can earn big dollars through the season. Apparently I have the knife technique down pat, according to the instructor at TAFE. Now it's just a matter of getting 20X faster, mastering rootstock selection, scion selection, the various grafts, cutting propagation etc. What an awesome challenge! This book would be a fine addition to my small but select collection of gardening books, hopefully they will be cherished by my son, who has a bit of the green thumb himself. Please, please, send me a free copy!!

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Speedy
26/1/2014 04:59:43 pm

The skill of grafting would enable a backyard farmer/homesteader to be able to have many vars (early, midseason and late vars.) of a given fruit on a single tree.
This can 'spread the harvest season' in a small plot or single tree giving more time to deal with fresh fruit.
also allow the freedom to chose the vars I wan't and get the material from friends trees for little , if any, cost....or swap with them ( even better.
:-)

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Peter Wheat
26/1/2014 05:03:52 pm

This would be an excellent reference for our Transition Town Community Orchards group "Grafting Festival" events.

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Marcus Draper
26/1/2014 06:14:43 pm

I'm involved with a newly formed community orchard organisation called Bromsgrow. Learning how to graft would be a great skill for us to develop. We're particular interested in propagating heritage varieties that are local to our area.
If we were lucky enough to be given a book I'm pretty sure a lot of people within our town will benefit, either from reading it or from the resulting produce.

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Hanna
26/1/2014 07:49:58 pm

I´m trying to learn all I can about selfsutaineble living and would be super happy if I was the lucky winner of the book!

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Joanne Marcil
26/1/2014 09:45:55 pm

I would like a copy of "The Grafters Handbook". We have a small organic market vegetable farm and a very old orchard, abandoned since at least 70 years. We are plannig to revitalized and manage part of it. This book would be very useful for us and for our grown up kids who are now becoming partners in our marvellous farm adventure. PS: if we dont win, can you please let us know were we can find a copy of this book? Thank you and keep up the good work.

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Barsha Knight link
26/1/2014 10:42:35 pm

A copy of this book would be a great help for our community garden :)

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Alex link
27/1/2014 05:21:53 am

Back to Nature, the only solution!
http://contadinodellestelle.blogspot.it/

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Torbjörn Höjer
27/1/2014 06:55:00 pm

I would love a copy..

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Jules Baw
27/1/2014 07:28:44 pm

yes! it would be great to start graftin in Hölö!

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Jill Cozzens
27/1/2014 08:41:46 pm

This book has been on my wishlist for a while. I'd love to win it!

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Andree-Anne Cloutier
28/1/2014 05:43:32 am

Very useful for planting trees in a cold climate like where I live : )

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ridgedale Richard
30/1/2014 08:24:24 pm

Hi Andree-Anne,

Ridgedale Yohanna picked you out the hat to receive a copy of this awesome book! Congrats!

Please send us your mailing address and phone no. (for the delivery folks) and we'll zip you over a copy!

Thanks everyone for your comments- happy grafting season!

Richard

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Réjean Lefebvre
28/1/2014 06:28:45 am

getting of the grid it's what your in and it would help me in this realisation...

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Genevieve Romain
28/1/2014 06:39:03 am

im a visual person so im certain that book would help me get more knowledg that i need to get to the next step!!!

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Mathieu Lefebvre
28/1/2014 08:17:03 am

For sure, I'd like to know more about grafting
thanks to share freely the knowledge

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jon gray
28/1/2014 10:07:32 am

Hello, I'm in the process of starting a permaculture farm on my family's land, I'm trying to incorporate annual vegetable production with food forestry systems. I'm madly self-educating right now (the land may be lost if my family doesn't start to make profit from it within a few years) and trying to accumulate an off grid library(books). Fruit trees will be a huge part of our design and any book of knowledge that can be passed hand to hand would be of immense wealth to our cause.

Thanks,
Jon Gray

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Takota Coen link
28/1/2014 11:02:36 am

This is a video about our plan for 25 acres of land on our farm in Central Alberta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnW_1E_EYko
Due to the scale of this we have begun plans for a nursery on our farm and grafting will undoubtedly be a necessity for the success of our farm. This book would be incredible helpful!

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John Carter
28/1/2014 11:10:59 am

Definitely want a copy. Just purchased our space and am beginning to plan the trees we will be brining in.

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Xkali Flores
29/1/2014 01:36:26 am

We are a team setting up a 5 hectare miracle farm type orchard in a heavily deforested area in Ameca Mexico. We are trying to start as many trees from seeds as possible, but it's not going to cut it for apples and pears. Even if we wanted to, we could not buy already grafted trees, we would need to go as far as the states to get them, as grafting is not part of the local set of skills.
Thanks for the plant profiles, they are helping my brother in another, colder climate project.

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Dan Miller
29/1/2014 03:51:00 am


This book would be helpful guide for me in my efforts to propagate largely edible and medicinal plants at my nursery.

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Karen Fry
29/1/2014 05:27:05 am

I'm going on a grafting course in March and this would be a great book to take along and get other people to benefit from.

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Linda Screen link
29/1/2014 06:44:54 am

Looking forwards to beginning our first permaculture orchard based on forest gardening principles this year - we're getting our first trees in before March along with a range of rootstock for all kinds of fruit. This book would be a big helping hand as we've a lot of graft to get through!

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Danielle Pannhurst
29/1/2014 09:09:12 am

Who wouldn't want this book??!! I'd love to have a copy! I'm starting work on our food forest design and this would be awesome! I help some local mom's create gardens to feed their families organic produce and this way I could help them add fruits into their life!

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Sally Smith link
29/1/2014 03:43:29 pm

I would love to learn more about this craft and to pass on this knowledge to others. We are just starting a community orchard In our village and we hope to run workshops and fun days, tree planting is going ahead this spring, so exciting to start a new project!

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Nate Peyman link
30/1/2014 05:32:43 am

We are a couple of new farmers working on rejuvinating old apple trees along the stone wall borders of some nice old Vermont Northern Farmland. We are WWOOFers that traveled across America in 2009-2010 working and learning on over 25 small organic farms, an experience that set our hearts on diversified Biodynamic and Permi Farming. Wew jumped right into growing for farmers markets and a small CSA, and we grow over 60 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, make VT Maple Syrup Applesauce and our own Vinegar. The book would help us in working with these trees and rejuvenation of orchard, as well as trading scions with other local farmers and homesteaders with old apples. These trees are delicious and prolific, and we hope to spread them on and work with them via grafting.. but we dont know Grafting and need to learn good practices.
Farm Love,
Nama Farm
Cambridge VT

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Crystal Kruso
30/1/2014 12:43:44 pm

I would love this book! We own a house on a small piece of land in San Diego, CA. I have been slowly turning it into our own private homestead. This book would help me and my family learn how to graft trees the right way!

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Bob Eichenberger
30/1/2014 11:20:07 pm

Here in Quebec, most of the fruit in our grocery stores come from slave labor work camps like Dole and Del Monte. It's time we start producing our own ecological fair trade fruit.

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K!EF
16/2/2014 02:38:10 pm

would love to learn more about nut tree grafting technics.

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Lucas
4/7/2014 05:52:35 pm

I've have just bought at 20 acre property and want to graft fruit trees to help with the orchard i want to plant
Cheers Lucas

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BERCEA COSTEL
17/10/2014 08:27:45 pm

i want this book because i am treenurseriest in Romania and i want to learn the best techniques of grafting

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Jean
1/2/2015 09:36:52 pm

I want this book because I am a old pensioner and I love working in the garden.

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Sergei
13/4/2015 06:29:01 pm

I want this book because I am a old pensioner and I love working in the garden.

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paul stewart
2/5/2015 08:41:29 am

i am from auckland new zealand and would dearly love a copy of this apparently wonderful book, as I have been told
I hope you give my request good consideration and would be over the moon to receive thank you
kind regards
paul stewart

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shelayna snow
20/5/2015 12:05:04 am

I have lots of trees growing from seed,but I need to learn to graft.

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Tom White
26/6/2015 10:04:36 am

Wanting to learn how to graft so that I may teach this incredible tool to more people in reel need while I am working in Ecuador

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mungur prakash
1/7/2015 01:06:58 am

dear ridgedalepermaculture.com i live in mauritius here we dont have these kind of books but i heard a lot about this book and am a newbee in the world of grafting i am currently strugling to learn grafting techniques would be of great help if i could get a copy of this manual to learn the proper way of doing grafting thanks in advance and sorry for any mistakes in typing.

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terran smith
17/7/2015 03:57:17 pm

A free grafting handbook would be of immeasurable help to us. As it is free, we would save money! Also, I do not think we would be able to locate a hardback copy of the book as it was first published in 1947. We have had a copy from the library and found the information to be extremely valuable for grafting in depth and covering methods that do not seem popular these days. We are able to try different methods of grafting when other methods are not so successful. We have both traditional and tropical orchards for home use and our love of gardening and growing of plants and trees.

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Michelle Lamb
4/9/2015 06:42:30 pm

The book would be used throughout our community garden community. We grow produce for donation to shelters and the less fortunate. We teach seed saving and promote urban gardening, but would like to teach more effective ways to improve crops through grafting. What a great way to stimulate ideas from folks!!! Thank you for your contest!!!

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Kevin Bond
29/9/2015 05:19:18 am

This book would help us teach alternative ways of saving specimen trees and shrubs on our research farm to local students and families. We share all information freely.

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peter ukai
27/9/2016 07:00:53 pm

hello i am59 years old and recovering from colorectal cancer and would like to learn how to graft so i may graft different types of cannibis to use as a pain reliever as certain types of pain relievers are not good for long term use apparently they are not good for certain organs the residents in my building are seniors with disabilites and are on a very limited income and at times they have a hard time affording their medication i hope to learn if its possible to grow and to graft different types of plants on to a rootstock thank you regards peter

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Ernesto
27/2/2017 02:30:56 pm

A bought a book "grow a little fruit tree". I'm planning to grow persimmons/ apple trees/ and pawpaws. New to growing fruit trees, I'm fascinated on how growers are able to grow fruit by grafting on a different variety so the tree can be pollinated. I want to grow pawpaws but don't want too many trees in my yard. one pawpaw with multiple varieties grafted on to one is my goal.

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Bill Houston
8/7/2018 03:30:29 pm

I would love to further my knowledge of grafting . Thank you!

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Perry White link
17/1/2020 10:43:01 am

I would love a copy as I will be grafting 20 cider and heritage variety apples this year.

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Rob Bardgett
27/4/2020 05:33:18 pm

I would love the chance to receive a free copy of this!! A family member of mine who is a well known horticulturist has referred me to this book! I have a love for particular trees that can grow in my area but struggle with certain environmental and weather conditions present where I live. Would really love to dive deep into this book and learn the ways to use different aspects of different trees to hopefully establish some of my favorite trees that would bring me immense joy!

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William link
17/12/2020 03:56:44 pm

I would love a copy of The Grafter's Handbook to help nourish my dream of planting an orchard.

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